Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gothic vastness of the House of Parliament, a blond young Englishman wandered familiarly through the members' smoking room, the green-carpeted corridors of the Commons and its stone-flagged lobbies. But although he was duly elected to Parliament from South-East Bristol in 1950 and returned three times since, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, 35, dared not enter the Commons chamber last week. The reason: upon the death of his father, Tony Wedgwood Benn had become the second Viscount Stansgate. As a peer, he was ineligible to sit in the House of Commons...
...Beckett's symbols of the twentieth century man; they are former hoboes, now burns, who dress in the loose fitting and shabby formal clothes of the burlesque clown; they are former homosexuals, now incapable of satisfying each other beyond a furtive embrace or a titillating story about an Englishman in a brothel; and, because of Beckett's genius for paradox, they turn out to be dignified human beings...
...cited a question asked him by a British diplomat, who wanted to know how many U.S. information centers had been burned down in the last year. "Three," Allen replied; to which the Englishman said, "I wonder why they don't burn any of ours down anymore, as in the good old days...
...Passion is a vital aim of the theater," he continued, emphasizing the passion of people for each other. Because of the prominent place that love occupies on the stage, the Englishman reiterated, the theater is a natural place for adolescents to express the new depths of their emotions. "In a sense, the theater is an extended puberty rite," he jested...
Eric Bentley, at the University for the year while on leave from Columbia, where he is Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, is a forty-four year old Englishman whose name is intertwined with that of Bertolt Brecht. Through his translations, and explanations of the complex Brechtian theories of epic drama, he has been chiefly responsible for the German playwright's recent surge of popularity. An anthologizer, translator, producer, and director, Bentley today looms as one of the most respected and acute commentators on the theatrical scene...